‘We need to promote settled status scheme’

The UK care sector has 1.5 million people working in it and more than 100,000 unfilled vacancies, Hassan Ortega told the UNISON community service group conference in Cardiff at the weekend.
Around a quarter of a million of those jobs are held by non-UK nationals – with 115,000 of those workers being citizens of EU countries.
The new immigration bar outlined by home secretary Priti Patel in the week before the conference requires a minimum salary well above the care sector’s average f